Asthma
Studies from University of Massachusetts provide new data on asthma
Published in MD Week, June 26th, 2009
"The relative performance of asthma care quality measures has not been evaluated in Medicaid populations. Using complete claims and pharmaceutical data for 19,076 patients with persistent asthma (based on Health Effectiveness and Data Information Set criteria) in five Medicaid populations, we compared the following two measures of asthma care quality: filling prescriptions for controller asthma medications within I year and the ratio of controller medication to the total number of asthma medication prescriptions filled within 1 year," investigators in the United States report.
"We calculated whether meeting each quality measure was associated with decreased odds of...
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Source: MD Week (2009-06-26)
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